New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-20
A SOLDIERS TEARS.
HOW CAFFARgL LOST HIS BADGE.

| HOW CAFFAR2L LOST HIS BADGE.
| (FRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIB SEl
PARIS, November ;.
General CaflareI is to appear on MondIy before
| the Tribunal of Correctional Police. Steps lave
been taken TO prevent him from appearing there
or indeed anywhere else for the rest OF his life
with the red rosette of Commander of tie Legion
| of Honor Oh his breast. On the return Of VI. Grevv
! from Mont Sur Vandrev he signed decree drawn
! up by General Fcrr deprivlgc the unfortunate
! General Catiare of the knighthOOd which lie
earned on the field Of battle. The task of execut-
ing this neasurc signed not to SOLDIER, bit
| to police cOmnis-ary. General Fcrron has
mean way of dong things and he showed it once
more in this instance lie should have sent
an officer to the dIsgraced general
to convey this blow. The cOmmlssary, NJ. Lat
mand. went at in the morning to the Conciergerie
Prison, where General Caffare awaits his trial.
He asked the Of this Jail to order General
Cal'lrel to be fetched to hIs ROOM The prisoner
soon entered. calm. cold and slightly stiff in car
riagc, and after bowing courteorsly awaited the
communication which he understood NJ. Lalmand
was charged 10 make.
"Genera7 said the commissary, / have to dis
charge a painful mission. 1t now my duty to read
TO you decree OF the President of the Re-
public striking your name from the roll of the
Legion of Honor"
if the old scldior'q face had been of stone
it could not have remained moro undIs-
turbcd or oxD-essIonlcss. One might have
thought, said the commis,ary. who described
to mo this scene that General Caffarei
had lost cons oaslcis W 10 it not that his vislgc
was blanched to absolute whiteness." He was
inst able 60 yet out the worl Comment - or
What do yon mean p without replying, NJ. Lal-
mand read the decree. When the reading was over
:. A fromhlinO showed
itself all over his body AID toars rolled down his
checks. II, tn n spoke a. follows:
Monsieur. / bore without complaint and
without being outN ardly disturbed the lmprison-
mont TO which WIS subjected. TO divers charges
brought against me answered with mistaken
calm because felt that my innocence must come
out. But this last bow is the worst of all, and it
uumansmc"
Neither ". LaimaNd nor tne governor OF the
prison could venture upon uttering a single word
of consolatlon They felt shat General Cattarcl,
who has been 50 fcl1c.Ously victimHed
in tine attempts of General Ferron 10 strike down
General B.uargcr. was more sinnel against than
Stunning. Tire investigating magistrate who Is
CHARGED to ,o k INTO the discovered yesterday
that the unfortunate General Caiarnl, rs he de-
casod but could not prove had been badly SWIM
died. He had been ~ to the time Of his arrest
Gee Iuci 3u i.ftl oil 3llitr upuT, anu IL " u
frank open character. Aud rs desire to deal hon
c,ty with Us creditors alone urged him 20 try and
sell his Official influence at Civil ministries t. rich
and vain men who yyartcl 20 Be decorated. 1t has
also. since his trIal before The five generals who
condemned him. come out tnat these debts were
owing to his wire hlvln lent her her S2OO,OOO
on the security If factory which eighteen months
after the loan was effected wound up in bank
ruptcy.
General Cafqrcl. after a silence Of about five
Minutes. was al Last able to say. " IS II you, Nr.
Comml>sarv, WHO are charged u tear my decora-
lion from INV brcastf" Il leave you, General. 10
DO ihat." wa. tie answer Then with neryou-ly
contracted f1,e and be eyes filed with te1rS, the
General suafched the red rosetto from his button
hol, al thrust il into his pocket
And NY God, " he cried, who ever better
earned the rl-At TO wear II thal didf'
NJ Lamaud said that o. al. his life he never was
sorained pa .XccutiuG q harsh mission. The gov
cruor slid: Lot rs ho9e that all viii come rleht
ia the end AMI Idns Tor a warder to conduct Cen
cral Caiare ha q TO his cell.
General Ca.farcl was attacked so suddenly and
vlctimized So rlpidly Dy General Ferron that he
lost hi, wits and had no time to collect them be-
fore lie stood as an accused party before the five
generals. His wife had lost all energy in losing
her fortune An active woman would have made
the whole pres, Of Europe ring with her husbands
gr cyaucc aud would have been too much for Gen
cral ieIron, Minister though he IS.
The people of Paris have no. n sober way of show
ing in public affairs how thor instincts lead them.
Bat these pa mptiugs are usually right. For
Poppi VS. act wr)aB at the begin
mng of last June III crf lug "Niye Bou-
laugerw aud "a has WilsDnw and in getting
up on the l4th of July that manifestation OF
quict sulk and silence against the Cabinet and the
President and nj, son-In-law in the Bois de Bon
lognr. The scandals which the Catfnrcl affair have
urcarihcd show that the pcbs of Paris were right
and that the can joGrna, OF Paris. Berlin, Lon
don aud o her cities that could name. which CEN
sured them for not behaving like good children,
were wrong W. Wilson's not worse in point of law
and irregiarlty than mos governing men whom
France has had since the death OF LOUIS QuatorzA
Where he ~ rcpugnant in his busne,s-ike stead
mess IN pnfcrilg and IN his mean methods
of fcathering his net. Corruption rs
means TO distribute wealth Is looked upon
IN tins country with kindly eye. 50 Is harsh IN
tcgrity. But there Is no sympathy to spare Tor
good familv-mcn in high places vino hoard up
wealth tor their offspring.
NJ Wilson acts like the needy Scots in Snolletts
novels. No gain Is to) small for HIM. no cheese
raring too scn Ter, and II il evident that he has
prottcd By his opportunities 70 make splendid
hanls AT the }onrs", IN the Finance Ministry when
ne was l'ndcr-Scccctary Of State there in the
Budget Co mittee and in tho "wIng'" OF
the governmental stag, whore he mas
the first news OF sort that Will
either nn tie or dcprcss the public stocks
Financial officers had to get their tax papers
printed at nj, presses md their stationery at paper
mills in which ne WAS a partner. His iliiGehce
was widcrcachng and N every department o.
Government. Bu to get 70 him the person seeking
to obtain his patronage had to Sub'crlbe To one OF
a hos Of journals In many eases the applicant
WIS asked to subscribe for himself and his frIend9
If be subscribed for twenty friends tho light OF
" Wilson's countcnance would shine favorably
upou him. For Literature. the Drama ana rms
Arts W. Wilson was n ~" ihtI WAS d1ih NO
l-. .r., n.n,l.,,..I in L. of the Chcap papcrS